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Clap for Health Minister Jens Spahn (40, CDU)! Until yesterday he promised: free mass rapid tests will be possible for all Germans from March 1. But nothing comes of that.
In the so-called “Crown Cabinet”, Chancellor Angela Merkel (66, CDU) personally received Spahn’s test promise on Monday morning, according to BILD information, and the date was postponed.
Together with Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (62, SPD) and Foreign Minister Helge Braun (48, CDU), he asked Spahn many questions about capabilities and permits, to make it clear: It doesn’t work like that!
▶ ︎ Background: In Germany, for example, there are still no approvals for the so-called “lollipop tests” that are used in Austria. It is also not clear yet whether the capabilities are sufficient and what a negative self-test means for a citizen. The minister could not provide enough answers.
Spahn said firmly to the critics in the cabinet: “I just have to know …”
Boom! Date postponed due to pressure from the Chancellor.
Countries angry with Spahn
Now the Crown Cabinet wants to discuss the creation of free trial options together with the Prime Minister’s Conference on March 3 and specify the opening strategy.
Therefore, the establishment of the free trials is scheduled for March 8. This could also mean that openings will be postponed again because according to information from the BILD, the Foreign Ministry makes larger openings dependent on the availability of massive rapid tests.
A member of Corona’s cabinet at BILD: “Jens Spahn looked visibly angry. After so many things went wrong with the vaccination, he really wanted to shine with the March 1 date.”
As BILD learned of an exchange conference between the federal government and the state chancelleries of the federal states, the postponement of the start of the free rapid test caused great annoyance to all Germans. The countries led by the SPD were upset that March 1 could not be celebrated because the Federal Ministry of Health had announced the date.
Spahn’s ministry tried to appease: The promise was made at a time when the number of infections was decreasing …
Particularly bitter for Spahn: SPD Secretary General Lars Klingbeil had already voiced his doubts about Spahn’s March 1 test date at the BILD talk “The Right Questions” Sunday night.
Klingbeil on the show: “When we were vaccinated, we noticed that we couldn’t believe Jens Spahn’s ads. Corrections and corrections continue to be made. And I’m a little afraid that (while we taste, d. Red.) create the next disappointment. ” Because there are “many questions that Jens Spahn has not answered until today.”
On Monday morning at 8:30 am, in front of Corona’s cabinet, Spahn was still optimistic, he told the CDU committee, in which the Chancellor was also present: “I have several offers from the discount stores on the table”.
In the committees of the CDU, Chancellor Spahn let it pass; in Corona’s cabinet, three hours later, he was tough along with the vice chancellor and the minister of the chancellery. And then Spahn (again) had to compile an ad …
